Author

Date of Graduation

Document Type

Degree Name

Degree Level

Undergraduate

Department

Biomedical Engineering

Advisor/Mentor

Shew, Woodrow

Committee Member/Reader

Muldoon, Timothy J

Committee Member/Second Reader

Wochok, Jeffrey C.

Abstract

To study the effect of the imbalance of excitation and inhibition neurons on brain entropy using a computer model of a brain. The brain model will be composed of a neural network and entropy of the neural network will be measured quantitatively. Entropy in this context quantifies how many different patterns of activated neurons the brain can create. Imbalance between excitation and inhibition neurons causes the brain to malfunction, which can be an underlying cause of autism.